Department News

January 16, 2017
Sara Bastomski will join the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center as a Research Associate I in July 2017. The Urban Institute is a leading economic and social policy...
January 16, 2017
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker has an article forthcoming in the leading academic journal for religious studies, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion entitled “...
December 19, 2016
Graduate Student Kristin Plys who began study at Yale in 2009, will join the University of Toronto’s Department of Sociology in July 2017 as a tenure-track assistant...
November 16, 2016
Celene Reynolds and Michael Sierra-Arévalo spoke at the opening of a digital exhibit on ISPS at CSSSI (Center For Science and Social Science Information) last month.  (http...
November 16, 2016
Professor Frederick Wherry has been elected vice-president of the Social Science History Association (SSHA). He will become president of the SSHA in 2018. The Social Science...
November 5, 2016
Graduate Student Alex DiBranco was published in The Public Eye, with an article entitled ”Whole Woman’s Health’s Unexpected Win for Science,” on the potential...
November 4, 2016
Graduate Student Kristin Plys recently published an article in Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. The article on Immanuel Wallerstein, currently Senior Research Scientist at...
October 22, 2016
Assistant Professor Emily Erikson was featured on Yale’s MacMillan Report, a program featuring discussions with professors about their work. Professor Erikson spoke about her...
October 4, 2016
Graduate student Till Hilmar recently published an article entitled, ”Narrating Unity at the European Union’s New History Museum: A Cultural-Process Approach to the Study of...
September 30, 2016
Graduate Student Michael Sierra-Arévalo’s work on gun ownership was recently featured in The Trace. The research demonstrates how offenders use guns for protection when...